NoodleBib Helps you use your “noodle”! Taking notes
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NoodleBib Helps you use your “noodle”!
Taking notes
What is NoodleBib?
Create, store, organize • Create a bibliography
• Take notes online
• Organize your notes– Develop your own ideas
– Think about what’s important
• Create your term paper
Citations + notes =
Work you’ll be proud of!• Create an accurate, relevant References
page– Correct style, punctuation, formatting– Prompts you to check for quality, balance
• Take good notes, keep them organized– Sources stay linked to notes – Easy to quote and reference– Summarize, evaluate, question– Organize ideas thoughtfully before writing
Your work is organized into projects.
Open a project you’ve started…or start a new one
Manage a project from your dashboard
Keep track of your goal and the assignments
Get feedback from your instructor and revise in an organized way
List view shows notes
Source
Notes
Your notes and sources stay linked
Three-part notes
1. Cut-and-paste Capture author’s words, images
– Get quotes and attribution right
– Mark-up the quote to understand the author’s idea
2. Paraphrase or summarize Explain it to yourself
– Tag concepts and facts
– Add reminders and tasks
3. My ideas Prompts for original thinking
– Analyze how it fits your research
– Ask questions, evaluate ideas
– List “to do” plan
Cut-and-paste first
Author’s image
Author’s words
You’ll get quotes and attribution right!
Reread and color-code information
Red for problems
Green for statistics
Highlight main ideas
Annotating helps you understand
Explain it to yourself**Using words that you understand
What do you think?
I wonder…?
“To do” next
Add the main idea last
Add tags now…or later*
*It’s easier to add tags when you know more
You can always go back to the source
Sometimes rereading clears up questions
Use your tabletop to organize notes
Your new notes
Sort notes however you like!
Drag notes
Make piles
Group notes that you feel belong together
Take as many notes as you need to!
Your tabletop is larger than the screen
A bird’s eye view
Label your notes with visual cues
Add reminders, colors and tags
Build your outline on-the-fly…
…or create it before you take notes
Drag notes and piles into your outline
Get help along the way
Get feedback, make changes • Print out source list, notes for your
own reference
• E-mail source list, notes to yourself or a friend
• Share your project with Ms. Morris to get tips and comments (dropbox: Eng11 Term Paper 2012-13)
Enough information?
When you think you’re done, review your work
• Can I add more tags now that I know more?– Label details, themes, concepts
• Other ways to order my ideas?– Reorder by searching on 2-3 tags at once
• Any loose ends?
• Are there types of sources I missed?
– Use button to see the type and range of sources you used
Organizing information
Create subtopics and outline• What notes have similar titles or topics?
– Pile them together– Add them to your outline
Play with the order, be curious!• What if I make new combinations of notes?
– Search by one or more tags to find common ideas among notes
• What other ways can I order my outline?• Do new grouping suggest new ways to analyze
what I know? New ideas? New questions?
Don’t forget to follow your ideas!
Easy to add more sources if you need to!
…and your work can never get lost!
What students say…
• “I love your site! Thank you so much. My senior paper would be taking me about 10 times as long!”
• “You guys are amazing!! I shared the site with my whole English class. Your bibliography program is incredible! It made making my bibliography faster, easier, and even fun!”
• “I overheard a young man whining to another student about a research assignment. The second student said, ‘Oh get over it, just use NoodleTools.’” (reported by librarian)
Use your “noodle”!
Stay organized, feel successful• Access your work from home and school• Safeguard against accidental plagiarism• Spend your time thinking and creating
(not on commas)• Get curious, feel creative…have fun!
Follow the handout…
• Click the "Create a Personal ID“ button to register as a new user
• At the “New User Registration” screen, enter lmhsenglish and password 53551
• Create your personal ID and password– Record these on your handout
• When you use NoodleBib after that, login only with your personal ID and password
“Noodle” time…start thinking!
Questions?
For more teaching ideas: support [at] noodletools [dot] com
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